Ghana’s forest cover is virtually gone?

AMBIENTE

At independence, this nation had 8.2 million hectares of tropical rain forest. Now we may not have one million of this left.

We have lost more than 90 percent of our forest cover in half a century of self-government. As a people, we have contrived to deny ourselves the resources with which to push our development agenda.
Officially, about 200 timber companies are under license to trade in trees. But, this figure pales into insignificance, compared to the number of unlicensed agents competing among themselves to deplete our forests. (...)

The article:
http://news.myjoyonline.com/features/201105/65606.asp

More about:

http://www.modernghana.com/news/354246/1/more-efforts-needed-to-recover-ghanas-lost-forest-.html

Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

About Ghana's Forests and Timbers:
http://www.ghanatimber.org/
http://www1.american.edu/TED/ghana.htm

A FAO's Case-Study:
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0248e/a0248e.pdf

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Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

Diritti umani in Ghana:

http://50.amnesty.it/sites/default/files/Ghana_0.pdf

Un documentario:

http://www.internazionale.it/festival/documentari/an-african-election/

TED - Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jarreth_merz_filming_democracy_in_ghana.html